| Does state merit-based aid stem brain drain? L Zhang, EC Ness Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 32 (2), 143-165, 2010 | 213 | 2010 |
| The politics of determining merit aid eligibility criteria: An analysis of the policy process EC Ness The Journal of Higher Education 81 (1), 33-60, 2010 | 132 | 2010 |
| The role of information in the policy process: Implications for the examination of research utilization in higher education policy EC Ness Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research: Volume 25, 1-49, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| Exploring the ‘how’in policy diffusion: National intermediary organizations’ roles in facilitating the spread of performance-based funding policies in the states D Gandara, JA Rippner, EC Ness The Journal of Higher Education 88 (5), 701-725, 2017 | 108 | 2017 |
| The politics of state higher education governance reform MK McLendon, EC Ness Peabody journal of education 78 (4), 66-88, 2003 | 99 | 2003 |
| Eligibility effects on college access: Under-represented student perceptions of Tennessee’s merit aid program EC Ness, R Tucker Research in Higher Education 49, 569-588, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| State capital expenditures for higher education:" where the real politics happens" DA Tandberg, EC Ness Journal of Education Finance, 394-423, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Policy adoption in North Carolina and Tennessee: A comparative case study of lottery beneficiaries EC Ness, MA Mistretta The Review of Higher Education 32 (4), 489-514, 2009 | 80 | 2009 |
| The determinants of state spending on higher education: How capital project funding differs from general fund appropriations EC Ness, DA Tandberg The Journal of Higher Education 84 (3), 329-362, 2013 | 68 | 2013 |
| Merit aid and the politics of education EC Ness Routledge, 2007 | 63 | 2007 |
| Interest groups and state policy for higher education: New conceptual understandings and future research directions EC Ness, DA Tandberg, MK McLendon Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research: Volume 30, 151-186, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Ideological think tanks in the states: An inventory of their prevalence, networks, and higher education policy activity EC Ness, D Gándara Educational Policy 28 (2), 258-280, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Campus responses to outcomes-based funding in Tennessee: Robust, aligned, and contested EC Ness, MM Deupree, D Gándara Final report to Tennessee Higher Education Commission and Ford Foundation, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Merit aid in North Carolina: A case study of a “nonevent” EC Ness, MA Mistretta Educational Policy 24 (5), 703-734, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Targeted Merit Aid: Implications of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship Program. EC Ness, BE Noland Journal of Student Financial Aid 37 (1), 7-17, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| Ideological think tanks and the politics of college affordability in the states D Gándara, EC Ness The Journal of Higher Education 90 (5), 717-743, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| The ecology of state higher-education policymaking in the US JC Hearn, EC Ness Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education, 19-47, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| A state-level merit aid typology JA Delaney, E Ness annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE …, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| The SHEEO and intermediary organizations EC Ness, JC Hearn, PG Rubin The state higher education executive officer and the public good: Developing …, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| State higher education governing agencies and the knowledge brokering process: Investigating their role as multi-facing organizations in the United States PG Rubin, EC Ness Higher Education Policy 34 (3), 643-663, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
David TandbergPresident, Adams State UniversityVerified email at adams.edu
